The Four Walls

"In many shamanic societies, 

if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, 

they would ask one of four questions: 

When did you stop dancing? 

When did you stop singing? 

When did you stop being enchanted by stories? 

When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?"

                                                                            Gabrielle Roth



Image: Katherine Crockett by Albert Watson

Ownership vs. Embodied Knowledge

"There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul."

Isadora Duncan

Image of Martha Graham: "Letter to the World (Kick)" by Barbara Morgan